Melbourne Design Week will be back in 2021 with the theme “Design the world you want” and the organizers are now seeking expressions of interest for talks, tours, workshops, launches and exhibitions.
The 11-day program showing off local and international design will run from Friday 26 March to Monday 5 April 2021 and will include events across Victoria.
Participants are being asked to consider “how the design community can work together to create a better, healthier future for the planet and its inhabitants.”
Expressions of are open to a wide range of practitioners, including designers, architects, galleries and educators.
“Melbourne Design Week has earned its reputation as an internationally renowned platform for Australian design and innovation,” said National Gallery of Victoria director Tony Ellwood. “This initiative is a celebration of our thriving industry, but also an opportunity for practitioners and visitors alike to encounter and discuss work at the vanguard of design practice world-wide.”
Launched in 2017, Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria.
For the 2021 program, the organizers are working alongside Open House Melbourne to put on a satellite program in regional Victoria, building on the previous success of the regional program in Geelong, which led to the establishmemt of Geelong Design Week.
During Melbourne Design Week, some of the world’s leading architects, designers and thinkers will present keynote talks and conversations.
And the Victorian Design Challenge will also return, offering a share of more than $25,000 in prizes for student and professional designers.
The Victorian government has announced it will renewed its presenting partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, locking in Melbourne Design Week for a further four years.
Creative industries minister Martin Foley said, “As we look ahead to a post-COVID world, design and creativity will play an important role not just in our recovery but in rethinking the status quo to build a better reality. Melbourne Design Week, the largest event of its kind in Australia, this year invites the design community to ‘design the world you want’ – an important and timely provocation.”
Expressions of interest can be made via the Melbourne Design Week website.
